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Err what? We don’t even understand nutrition in a single person that well. Some people thrive on a vegan cost, for others it’s unhealthy. The same is true for many other forms of diet.

The reason for this is that it’s incredibly hard to make meaningful studies over such long periods of time where so many other variables have an impact on health.

And now someone claims that they can trace some health aspects back over one or more generations? I call BS.

Not that this isn’t possible, but that such specific claims like higher BMI can be traced back to smoking fathers.




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